Gutter hanger circle and plate combination



April 10, 1934. J TURER 1,954,001

GUTT-ER HANGER CIRCLE AND PLATE COMBINATION Filed Oct. 24, 1933 INVENTOR .faak Tufer.

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hip ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 10, 1934 UNITED STA GUTTER HANGER CIRCLE AND PLATE COMBINATION Jack Turer, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Whitney Metal Products Corporation, New York, N. Y.,

a corporation of New York Application October 24, 1933, Serial No. 694,939

3 Claims.

This invention relates to gutter hangers in general and particularly to the kind known as Circles, and especially to a new combination of a circle and an attaching plate by means of which the hanger may be directly secured to a supporting surface.

One of the prime objects of the present invention is to provide a relatively inexpensive, efficacious article of this kind which not only permits the attachment of a gutter hanger circle directly under the eaves of a roof, but which also facilitates the application of an additional support in the form of a shank which may be readily secured to the structure, which latter provides means for guiding the shank relative to the attaching plate of the structure and at the same time preventing the rotary motion of the hanger relative to the shank.

Another object of this invention is to provide a plate formed from a blank into a folded device, which in its finished form represents a plate construction consisting of two symmetrically arranged attaching flanges, disposed in one plane, and a double rib extending from the attaching flanges at right angles. That rib is spaced for accommodating the reduced flat end or heel portion of a circle with which the double rib is fixedly united.

Another object of this invention is to provide from the plate structure a hook formation adapted to extend, when the article is finished, in substantially the plane of the circle.

Another object of this invention is to provide fastening means between the circle and the plate structure in the form of rivets or bolts, the heads of which being so shaped as to constitute guide means for a shank to guide the latter laterally, and other means for preventing the rotation of the shank relative to the plate structure.

A further object of this invention is to provide in the plate structure and the heel portion of the circle, suitable apertures for receiving attaching instrumentalities adapted to secure a shank fixedly to the hanger. The foregoing and still further objects will become more fully apparent from the following description in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming part of this disclosure, but by no means being intended to limit this invention to the actual showing and in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a gutter hanger, representing the presently preferred embodiments of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof, with a circle partially in section.

Fig. 3 is a'partial side elevation reversed to that shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view taken on lines 4-4 of Fig. 1 and perpendicularly to cated at 16.

flanges 14 and 15 and indi- The heel portion of the circle is disposed in the space between the double rib, which is cut out at 17, to permit the body of the heel portion to pass therethrough. At the upper end of the plate structure, there is stamped out from the plate material a hook 18 extending substantially in the plane of circle 10 and serving for engaging the inner edge of a trough.

The flat body of the heel portion of the circle is united with the two webs of rib 16 by means of upper rivet 19 and lower rivet 20. The heads of the rivets at one face of rib 16 are rectangular,

as indicated at 19 and 20 respectively. These heads serve for guiding a shank, attachable to the plate, and for preventing it from turning relative to the plate.

This is clearly observable from Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawing. Just below rivet 19 is an aperture 21 made through both the plate material and the flattened heel portion of the circle and serving for accommodating rivets, bolts or other attaching instrumentalities by means of which a shank, denoted in broken lines at 22, may

be secured to the plate.

Similar apertures provided in the plate alone are indicated at 23 and adapted to serve for the same purpose.

Referring now particularly to Fig. 5, it will be seen that the plate comprises a simple stamping which is bent along lines 24 and 25 to form the required attaching flanges 14 and 15 and spaced double rib 16. Also the manner of forming the hook 18 from the material of the plate is clearly conceivable from that figure.

Operation In use, the present device is attached under the eaves, if a sufficiently broad supporting surface is available, by simply securing the attaching flanges to such case apertures 26 supporting surface, in which provided in the flanges are used for accommodating the nails or screws in the usual manner.

In the event the supporting that although rivet heads 19 and 20' are shown,

only at one face of the; structure, such arrangement may be duplicated at both faces of double rib 16 so as to permit the attachment of the shank from either side of the rib. It is also obvious that while a specific form of construction is shown in the drawing, modifications .and;im

provements may be incorporated therein to meet specific requirements and. I therefore wish to have it understood that I shall have the right to make such changes and improvements as may be required, without departing from the broad scope of the annexed claims.

I claim:

1. In a gutter hanger, a circle having a substantially. fiat heel;p orti,on, decreasing, in width towards its end, a folded plate embracing and firmly secured ,to said heel portion, ahook formed from the plate material and extending therefrom in substantially the planes of the -circle.

2. In a gutter hanger, a circle having a substantially flatheel portion, decreasing in ,width towards its end, a folded plate embracing and firmly secured to said heel portion, a hook formed from the plate material and extending therefrom in substantially the plane of the circle, said plate being secured to said heel portion by means of rivets, the heads of the latter being so designed as to form guide and stop means for a shank, and perforations provided in said plate for accommodating attaching instrumentalities.

3. In a gutter hanger, a circle and plate combination, comprising a circle having a substantially flat heel portion, gradually reducing towards its end, aplate in engagement with said heel portion and comprising a folded structure, the middle portion, of which forming a spaced, double rib, adapted to embrace the heel portion, a hook stamped out from the plate material and disposed ina plane substantially in alignment with said circle, a pair of rivets passing through the double rib and the heel portion and having oblong heads adaptedto form guides andstops for a shank, and a plurality of apertures in the double rib and the heelportion for; receiving attaching instrumentalities for securing, a shank to the plate.

JACK TURER. 

